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CICS Applition Design Multiple Choie Questions: 1. Whih ll the following is not eision for the systems esigner:. Plnning for user testing.. Cpity vs. osts.. Reovery vs. performne.. DSA size. e. Sreen lyout 2. Whih of the following re tsks performe y the system esigner.. Plnning for user testing.. Proeures for phsing in the pplition.. Estlishing user interfe.. All of the ove. e. None of the ove. 3. Wht is system element?. The system's element onsists of proeures.. The system's element is the funtionl moules.. All the system's tles tht re rete y the system progrmmer.. A tle ll the sreens n mps use in the system. e. The mjor portion of the testing phse. 4. Wht is the purpose of the FCT?. Keep trk of ll the progrms within CICS n their ssoite trnstion IDs.. The FCT is list ll the Journl logs supporte y CICS.. FCT ontins list of ll the files use within the CICS region.. All of the ove. e. None of the ove. 5. The DCT is use to etermine the hrteristis of:. Popultion ensity. Intrprtition t queue. Mximum numer of terminls supporte y the region. Domin support e. None of the ove. 6. There re numer of ifferenes etween th n on-line systems. Whih of the following is not ifferene:. Preitle lo on the system. Reovery issues. Testing. Bth progrms n e written in COBOL. ALC is the only lnguge where one n oe CICS progrms. e. Bth often uses tpe files; CICS rrely uses tpes. COMPUTER EDUCATION TECHNIQUES, INC. (CICS_APPS_DES - 4.10) SA: Pge 2
CICS Applition Design 7. This CICS prtition is ivie into three si omponents. Whih of the following is not one of the omponents?. CICS nuleus.. CICS ynmi storge re.. Operting systems storge.. Terminl omponent systems re. e. No orret nswer. 8. The lo mro is use:. to lo tle into memory.. to lo speil purpose hnling routine.. to lo the operting system for use.. to lo the CICS nuleus. e. None of the ove. 9. The ynmi trnstion kout will our:. Before trnstion strts.. During trnstion when n error ours.. After trnstion hs omplete.. None of the ove. e. At system strtup 10. One of the mjor funtions of file mngement is n utomti journl. The utomti journl will generte:. Before n fter imges.. Journl reors of hnges to progrms.. Uptes n tht hve ourre to the system's tles.. All of the ove e. None of the ove. 11. By using temporry storge mngement, progrm tht n store t:. For the entire urtion of CICS.. For the urtion of the pplition progrm.. Until the progrm speifies tht the temporry storge is to e relese.. All of the ove. e. None of the ove. 12. When esigning CICS online system, if there is nee for sumitting th jos, one woul use the following:. Temporry t mngement.. VSAM KSDS.. Extrtrnsient t queue.. A r reer e. An ATI on n intrprtion queue 13. Wht is the tsk ispthing priority:. The priority tht eh users keyor hs. Priority of the system in reltion to the CICS region. Trnstion priority + Terminl priority + opertor priority. All of the ove e. None of the ove COMPUTER EDUCATION TECHNIQUES, INC. (CICS_APPS_DES - 4.10) SA: Pge 3
CICS Applition Design 14. The ifferene etween LINK n XCTL is:. The LINK is lwys more effiient thn the XCTL.. LINK returns to the lling progrm n XCTL will not.. The LINK is not ville in the urrent CICS version.. Link nnot pss vlues to suroutine. e. None of the ove. 15. Wht is the primry mesure of on-line systems performne:. Reoverility. Response time. Aury. Integrity e. Memory Usge 16. Why oes the storge use y tsks in CICS system hve to e relime when the tsks termintes.. To provie itionl memory for th jos.. To ivie eh user with memory to proessing progrms.. If tsks of short urtion is storge were not relim fter every use the susequent tsks in the system woul run out of storge fter short time.. All of the ove. e. None of the ove. 17. Wht re the two mjor res of CICS Tsk Control.. Tsk Control Are, Deugging pool. Dispther, Applition Request Proessor. TCTIO, System Requestor. LPC, Devie I/O e. None of the ove 18. Wht is ment y enqueuing?. It is tehnique for reserving resoure n tht resoure is hel exlusively for speifi tsk.. Pling user into queue.. Reserving n entire region for one user.. Conneting to personl-omputer network. e. None of the ove. 19. The nme of the lirry tht ontins ny progrms tht re to e use uring CICS exeution is.. CICS System Lirry (CSL).. The CICS Repository.. Su iretories.. Relotele Progrm Lirry. e. None of the ove. COMPUTER EDUCATION TECHNIQUES, INC. (CICS_APPS_DES - 4.10) SA: Pge 4
CICS Applition Design 20. Wht is resient pplition progrm:. A progrm tht is not normlly relese from storge uring exeution.. A progrm tht is lost in the omputer.. A progrm tht is not in the RPL.. All of the pplition progrms. e. None of the ove. 21. How is file me protete resoure:. By loking the file.. By requesting protetion sttus in the files FCT entry.. By eleting the file.. Proviing file psswor for the file. e. None of the ove. 22. How n unusul onitions e hnle in CICS.. By writing n ALC exeption hnling routine.. With the RESP luse or HANDLE instrutions.. Clling the CICS Error Hnler.. Vi ll k routine. e. None of the ove. 23. Uner VSAM n CICS, wht is the smllest mount tht n e loke?. CI. CA. Reor. Byte e. File Ctlog 24. Wht n e one to voi ely emre?. Mke sure eh sttement hs n error hnling routine.. All progrms tht upte multiple files shoul perform their uptes in presrie file sequene.. Eh progrm shoul etet ely emre n proess it. Use thir prty pkge. e. Opertors shoul monitor for ely emre n purge the pprropite tsks 25. Wht is the progrm use ount?. A ounter of urrent progrm usge kept y CICS in the PPT.. A ounter of progrm use store in eh iniviul progrm.. The numer of files ess me y progrm.. Progrms n only e refreshe(newcopy) when this ount is greter thn zero. e. None of the ove. 26. Wht is COMMAREA?. A ommunition re for terminl.. An re for n iniviul progrm to store ll temporry flgs.. An re use to pss informtion etween progrms.. A ommunition re for proessing t etween CPUs. e. None of the ove. COMPUTER EDUCATION TECHNIQUES, INC. (CICS_APPS_DES - 4.10) SA: Pge 5
CICS Applition Design 27. How often oes VSAM file tht is never upte hve to e reorgnize?. Dily.. Depening on free spe.. Depening on the types of CICS sttement tht re proessing the file.. None of the ove e. B & C 28. Wht is symoli mp?. A link eit mp.. A mp of ll the entry points in the CICS region.. A opyook memer tht is inlue into the soure. It ontins oe efining the fiels on the mp.. The lo moule tht is lo into the CICS region when progrm sen mp. e. None of the ove. 29. Wht type of fiel o we wnt to voi nming in mp?. Fiels tht woul not e referene in the progrm.. Fiels tht woul mke the progrm to omplite.. Numeri fiels.. Fiels tht woul e referene in the progrm. e. None of the ove. 30. When esigning sreen, the error messges shoul pper:. Wherever the user wnts.. In onsistent ple on the sreen.. On the upper right hn orner of the sreen.. Messges shoul not pper on the sreen.; Just BEEP when n error ours. e. None of the ove. COMPUTER EDUCATION TECHNIQUES, INC. (CICS_APPS_DES - 4.10) SA: Pge 6
CICS Applition Design TRUE/FALSE Questions: 31. A mpset n ontin only one mp.. FALSE 32. The output of the CICS trnsltor is moifie soure oe n file with ll the CICS ommns in n internl CICS formt.. FALSE 33. Sreen esign oes not hve signifint effet on the suess or filure of n online system.. FALSE 34. The esigner of the sreen only hve to onerns themselves with goo sreen lyout.. FALSE 35. Prt of the system esigners jo is to minimize trnsmission osts.. FALSE 36. The sreen esign oes not require test pln.. FALSE 37. When possile, put s mny smll piees of informtion on single sreen.. FALSE 38. Design systems for keye ess using BDAM type t sets.. FALSE 39. The esigner oes not hve to e onerne with reovery. It is utomtilly hnle y CICS.. FALSE 40. There re trnstions tht n e initite t system strtup y the pplition progrm.. FALSE 41. The PLTPI is use to initite trnstion when the CICS region is terminte.. FALSE COMPUTER EDUCATION TECHNIQUES, INC. (CICS_APPS_DES - 4.10) SA: Pge 7
CICS Applition Design 42. When serh for lrge mounts of t, keep the keyor loke up.. FALSE 43. BMS pge uiling is high performne sreen genertor.. FALSE 44. Testing online systems in similr to testing th systems.. FALSE 45. When esigning VSAM files, mke sure to use s mny inexes s possile. This woul llow ll serhes to e s fst s possile.. FALSE 46. Alwys uses VSAM KSDS when using VSAM files.. FALSE 47. The numer of uffers for VSAM file re very importnt n n e ontrolle vi typil pplition progrm.. FALSE 48. The esign of ny online system is iretly relte to the imgintion of the esigner.. FALSE 49. A tsk element onsists of one logi element.. FALSE 50. To etermine the ost of jo, one shoul ount for testing of the jo.. FALSE COMPUTER EDUCATION TECHNIQUES, INC. (CICS_APPS_DES - 4.10) SA: Pge 8